Apple Is Said To Be Working On an iPhone Even It Can't Hack (nytimes.com)

An anonymous reader writes with this story at the New York Times: Apple engineers have already begun developing new security measures that would make it impossible for the government to break into a locked iPhone using methods similar to those now at the center of a court fight in California, according to people close to the company and security experts. If Apple succeeds in upgrading its security — and experts say it almost surely will — the company would create a significant technical challenge for law enforcement agencies, even if the Obama administration wins its fight over access to data stored on an iPhone used by one of the killers in last year's San Bernardino, Calif., rampage. The F.B.I. would then have to find another way to defeat Apple security, setting up a new cycle of court fights and, yet again, more technical fixes by Apple.

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which brings to mind the old question ...

[swell]

Can God make a chili pepper so HOT that even He can't eat it?
Yeah, makes you think, doesn't it?

Re:Meanwhile in Redmond...

[fisted]

Guess I should consider looking at OpenBSD

Yeah, I'm also seriously considering to consider the consideration of potentially maybe looking at OpenBSD, or their Website anyway, if Microsoft does this again more than five times, at least if it wasn't for all the Windows-only programs that I need and have no replacement.

I'm sure MS is shaking, considering my consideration.

Re: Torn

[PopeRatzo]

A free-thinking libertarian once gave me a great acid test for weather or not laws should exist: Would the existence of such a law have helped the colonies overthrow King George III or would such a law have helped King George III keep hold of the colonies?

God, "free-thinking libertarians" are even more banal than I thought.